site
Americannoun
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sites
plural
verb (used with object)
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sites,
present (3rd person singular)
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sited,
past participle, past
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siting
present participle
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to place in or provide with a site; locate.
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to put in position for operation, as artillery.
to site a cannon.
noun
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the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located
a building site
archaeological site
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( as modifier )
site office
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an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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sitesimple
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sitessimple
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have sitedperfect
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has sitedperfect
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am sitingprogressive
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are sitingprogressive
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is sitingprogressive
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have been sitingperfect progressive
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has been sitingperfect progressive
Past
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sitedsimple
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had sitedperfect
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was sitingprogressive
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were sitingprogressive
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had been sitingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of site
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin situs “position, arrangement, site” (presumably originally, “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere “to leave, allow to be” + -tus suffix of verbal action
Explanation
A site is a location. The leader of a Zombie Army might remind his underlings: “Your web site is just a collection of pages at one address on the Web. Your burial site is where you find more soldiers!” Site can also refer to a specific parcel of land, such as a building site or a burial site. Although a website has no physical location, it does have a virtual one, which is reached the same way a physical location is: by going to an address.
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Later in the oral argument, Thomas said he “always thought of 247Sports as a sports site,” and he questioned the “logic” of viewing the site as a “videotape service provider.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
Two other senior CJP leaders, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, were arrested on October 14 after entering Jantar Mantar, a decades-old protest site that police have declared off-limits for demonstrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Lane said the site "needs to stop" its formal education offering in part due to financial pressures WWT faces.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Thursday’s demonstration at a SpaceX test site in Texas made good on a longtime promise from Chief Executive Elon Musk that the next Roadster would be capable of flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Kevin must have read Deirdre's Web site," Bess said.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
According to a 2024 study on website privacy, more than half of all companies listed in the S&P 500 index use the “Meta pixel” on their sites, sharing people’s information with both Facebook and Instagram.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
In the Permian Basin in West Texas, several driverless trucks have been pounding the dusty roads transporting frack sand to well sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
From November onwards, all captive birds at Castle Espie will be transferred to other WWT sites across the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The hotel hosts special trips during the festival, led by a local astronomer, and runs visits to various sites and events across the park.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
In Cuba, crews of Soviet soldiers dismantled the missile sites.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Yet roughly 70% of Americans say they oppose data centers being sited near them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That may already be on the way, via a newly introduced council amendment that would allow bigger data centers to be sited in rural and agricultural areas instead of residential corners—a move the organizers oppose.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
He said the biggest factor that will determine when the next Garden Grove happens is not individual actions, but how industry and regulators approach the safety of these facilities, including where they should be sited.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
There are no small reactors yet in the U.S., but dozens of companies are trying to get them approved and sited.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
It was the largest in the camp, and the best sited; sitting atop a low rise beside a stream, it commanded a clear view of two of Raventree’s gates.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
That includes set intervals between charging stations, similar siting of charging infrastructure and standards for installed chargers, among items outlined in a shared statement of principles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“We can do whatever we want in the markets,” he said, “but if our plants run into a hostile siting and permitting regime, they will not get built.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Dave Belote, another former director of the Defense Department’s energy siting agency, also questioned the administration’s claims in a statement Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
It says: "Its siting demonstrates a deliberate attempt to establish an intimate bond between natural beauty and remoteness on the one hand and human spiritual commitment on the other."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
Consider that a conversation by telephone—when you are simply siting by and not taking any part in that conversation—is one of the solemnest curiosities of modern life.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain
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